Scholarships for Engineering Students in the East Tennessee Demographic Region

目前的预测表明，未来几十年，美国科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域的毕业生供不应求，需要在这些领域培养更多的美国毕业生。此外，多样性是国家在技术劳动力方面取得成功的关键之一，因为今天的协议要求成员具有不同观点和背景的团队执行全球资本市场所需的苛刻和复杂的工程任务。该项目正在通过创建一个系统的、以目标为导向的计划来解决这些问题，该计划直接旨在增加该大学工程学院专业的数量和多样性。被瞄准的STEM行业是那些在技术不那么先进的美国东南部地区得到很好代表的行业：向来自所有人口群体的合格、经济困难的学生提供奖学金，让他们攻读化学工程、电气工程、计算机科学、计算机工程和材料科学与工程的学士学位。那些本来负担不起大学教育费用的奖学金学生被招募和挑选，重点是增加国家工程师队伍的多样性。具体的计划目标是：a)为来自不同背景的至少30名学生提供至少80%的必要经济支持。b)通过学术、研究和工业合作经验，为这些学生提供丰富的教育机会。C)留住至少95%的这类学生，直到获得学位。D)将其中至少20%的学生安排在国际公认的STEM领域顶尖研究生课程中。E)将这些学生中的其余部分安排到工业岗位，特别是在美国东南部地区。f)促进目标行业工程劳动力多样性的立即和长期扩张。更广泛的影响：主要的更广泛的影响是美国行业的技术劳动力多样化，特别是那些位于经济不景气的美国东南部地区的员工。这将导致工程界能够更好地引入创新的想法、设计和产品，使美国工业能够在当今和未来不断变化的全球市场中有效竞争。第二个更广泛的影响是将毕业生安置在美国东南部地区的跨国公司，在那里他们可以迅速晋升到自己的不同观点可以对这些公司产生积极影响的职位。该计划的另一个更广泛的影响是开发和改进一种可在美国东南部地区的大学复制的STEM教育多样化模式，并通过适当的场所传播这一努力的结果。

Current projections indicate that the demand for U.S. graduates in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields in the upcoming decades exceeds the supply, more U.S. graduates need to be produced in these fields. In addition, diversity is one of the keys to national success in the technological workforce, since the protocols of today require teams with members having diverse viewpoints and backgrounds to perform the demanding and complex engineering tasks required in global capital markets. This project is addressing these issues by creating a systematic, goal-oriented program aimed directly at increasing the number, and also the diversity, of majors in the College of Engineering at the university. The STEM industries being targeted are those which are well represented within the less technologically advanced southeastern region of the U.S.Intellectual Merit: Scholarships are being provided to well-qualified, financially needy students from all demographic groups to pursue B.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering. Scholarship students who would not otherwise be able to afford a university education are recrutied and selected, with a focus on increasing the diversity of the national pool of engineers. The specific program goals are to: a) provide at least 80% of the necessary financial support for at least 30 students from diverse backgrounds.b) provide these students with a rich educational opportunity, through academic, research, and industrial co-op experiences. c) retain at least 95% of these students until degree attainment. d) place at least 20% of these students into internationally recognized, top-tier graduate programs in the STEM fields. e) place the remainder of these students into industrial positions, particularly within the southeastern region of the U.S. f) catalyze an immediate and long-term expansion in the diversity of the engineering workforce in the targeted industries. Broader Impacts: The primary broader impact is a diversification of the technological workforce in U.S. industries, with particularly emphasis on those located within the economically depressed southeastern region of the nation. This is leading to an engineering community that is better able to introduce innovative ideas, designs, and products that allow U.S. industries to compete effectively in the ever-changing global marketplace of the present and future. A secondary broader impact is to place graduating students into international corporations within the southeastern region of the nation, wherein they can quickly rise to positions in which their own diverse viewpoints can positively impact those corporations. Another broader impact of the program is to develop and improve a model for diversifying STEM education that can be replicated at universities throughout the southeastern region of the U.S., and to disseminate the results of this effort through appropriate venues.